Food Safety Analysis: Coverage, Distributions & Gaps
A map of what our 894,137-product index covers, how scores and processing groups distribute, and where to read deeper breakdowns. Every figure below is computed from the live database as of September 2026, not hand-typed.
Coverage at a glance
407,933 products carry a scorable ingredient list across 36,827 brands and 251,493 normalized additives. Ultra-processed NOVA group 4 accounts for 70.0% of classified rows.
- 894,137
- total product records
- 26
- separately flagged additives tracked
- Sweet snacks
- highest flagged-ingredient category
Most widespread flagged additives
Additives that appear in the largest share of indexed products (presence, not toxicity ranking).
Where to go deeper
- US packaged-food statistics, NOVA bands and score distributions.
- Safety by category, average scores and flagged rates for major grocery types.
- Research articles, one distribution analysis per facet.
- Product compare, side-by-side scores for two barcodes.
- Rankings, top-N lists by additive and brand.
- Open data exports, CSV and JSON mirrors.
Derivation steps and source vintages are documented on methodology. PlainFoodSafe describes registry coverage and additive prevalence; it does not provide medical, dietary, or recall alerts.
What to do with this analysis
Choose the next evidence layer
Use the aggregate pattern to decide what to inspect next, then move to a named record or source-backed comparison rather than treating a catalog total as an individual verdict.
- Open a named ingredient when you need the FDA SAFFA and CSPI fields behind an additive’s catalog footprint. Browse ingredient records
- Compare two barcodes when you have specific package labels and need the same screening fields side by side. Compare two products
- Use category patterns to locate a grocery type, then inspect the product-level evidence instead of relying on its average. View category patterns
Catalog totals describe the coverage and source fields in this snapshot. They do not determine recall status, exposure, dietary suitability, medical safety, or the current formulation of a specific package.
Every figure on PlainFoodSafe is rendered directly from OpenFoodFacts and FDA data, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.